Background

Mr. Peter Fannon serves as Vice President of Corporate and Government Affairs at Panasonic. Mr. Fannon directs legislative and government affairs for Panasonic. His responsibilities also include Panasonic's environmental, product safety and regulatory compliance activities. In addition, he helps coordinate Panasonic's technology development and evaluation activities associated with new products and services. For these purposes, Mr. Fannon represents Panasonic in a variety ... of industry, trade, and advisory organizations. Before joining Panasonic in 1997, Mr. Fannon was active in advanced television development. He was President of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC), the official laboratory for testing new TV broadcast systems submitted to the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He also chaired a coalition of consumer and citizens groups, labor unions, manufacturers, retailers, and others organized to promote adoption and rapid implementation of the new, digital and high-definition television broadcast transmission standard. Earlier, Mr. Fannon worked in public television. He was President, National Association of Public Television Stations (NAPTS), which he helped establish in 1980, as the research, planning, and government affairs organization for public TV. Before that, he was Director of Planning for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network and its member stations. Mr. Fannon has also held posts in the Federal government, in the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) and in the General Services Administration (GSA). He serves as a Member of the Board of Industry Leaders at Consumer Electronics Association. He is a member of several professional associations, and he is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He earned Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University.

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